Staggering statistics have recently highlighted the impact of chronic liver disease globally on the health of individuals and communities and in the global arena, writes Associate Professor Amany Zekry. [ + ]

Contemporary recruitment procedures are carefully designed so as to avoid unlawful discrimination. This results in precisely crafted job criteria and scrupulously even-handed treatment of applicants. This careful attention to fairness could be said to express the ethical value and principle of justice and, accordingly, to this extent recruitment processes do provide a role for ethics. [ + ]

In this final article in the series from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission), we review the progress of implementation of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards since their introduction into health service organisations on 1 January 2013. [ + ]

The national rate of  'golden staph', cases in public hospitals dropped between 2010-11 and 2012-13, according to a report released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). [ + ]

Cancer in lymph nodes will  more likely be detected with the development of an advanced imaging technique supported by the latest Cancer Council WA grant. [ + ]

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The University of Adelaide has been awarded $23 million in Federal funding to establish a new national Centre of Excellence For Nanoscale BioPhonics to develop technologies that will help create a "window into the body" in ways never achieved before. [ + ]

Australian Hospital and Healthcare Bulletin introduces a new regular column by Leading Age Services Australia CEO Patrick Reid. [ + ]

University of Queensland researchers have made a major leap forward in treating renal disease,  announcing they have grown a kidney using stem cells. [ + ]

Macquarie University researchers have invented a new generation of nanocrystals which offer untapped clinical potentials in non-invasive cancer diagnostic kits, rapid pathogen screening for acute infection, and invisible coding for identification of authentic pharmaceuticals. [ + ]

Researchers are getting closer to winning the war against breast cancer, according to an international team whose work was published in Lancet. [ + ]

From farts on a plane to fake fingers, weird and wonderful science was out in force in 2013. Compiled by the Australian Science Media Centre, with help from the RiAus and the CSIRO, this annual list of the weirdest science stories of the year contains both stories that will make you squirm and those that will have you scratching your head. [ + ]

[caption id="attachment_6065" align="alignright" width="110"] APA President Marcus Dripps[/caption] [ + ]

The Australian Medical Association has published the 2012-13 Indigenous Health Report Card;  The Healthy Early Years – Getting the Right Start in Life. [ + ]